Holy crap every now and then this website does indeed find a gem.
Brazilian study shows
neoliberal mental health therapy is far inferior to socially interactive therapy.
Results show individual-level interventions often neglect the broader social and political structures contributing to mental distress.
It's only inferior in exploiting the vulnerable for political ends by sociopathic therapists. The proof is literally in the article. They boast about it.
And it's not one short remark. The entire website is filled with nothing but problematic content. I can understand someone who has judged your comment without reading the article, but you went there and quoted it. And
nothing seemed suspicious to you? Really???
Have another look:
Drawing from the extensive 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort study in Brazil, Béhague and her team reveal how socially sensitive therapy, grounded in the principles of Latin American social medicine, can empower individuals to address and challenge the systemic forces shaping their lives.
Literally: this is what the anti-psychiatrists claimed like the homosexual
sadomasochist and pedophile Michel Foucault. You're not mentally ill, it's society oppressing you. Therefore the child is not molested but liberated.
The authors write:
“What seems to have made a difference for young people were therapists who responded flexibly, recognized the limits of their own positionality, and maintained dialogic openness to unstructured reflection and the productivity of confrontation.”
Literally: They are abusing their patients by not providing help and encouraging them to engage in delusions. This is outright rejection of the assumption that the mentally unwell comes to the therapist to get
better.
They go on to add:
“Young people who returned to the clinic, despite intense feelings of disappointment and mistrust, used the therapeutic encounter to engage in social and political debate and explore new modes of agency. Clinical interactions came to center not on the treatment of disorder or symptom-reduction, but on crafting self-worth, political awareness, and social influence.”
LITERALLY: DESPITE INTENSE FEELINGS OF DISAPPOINTMENT AND MISTRUST
Do you think it is appropriate for people being treated to have
intense feelings of mistrust toward the people providing treatment?
Did you even notice that?
They stated it in the study that is being cited! The study says "
our patients didn't trust us but we kept going because we care so much about giving them a voice of their own".
Also note the focus on young people, typically from abusive homes or already isolated, without the support or experience that would allow them to reject a therapeutic experience that is adverse to their expectations. Typically you will find this approach targeted at extremely vulnerable young people with very specific types of disorders.
We will get to that.
This research underscores the need for a shift in mental health practice, emphasizing the role of therapy not just in symptom management but as a catalyst for social and political activism, particularly for marginalized communities.
Therapy is not "just" to help the patients but (primarily) to convince them to become activists.
But it gets worse - another article, right in the sidebar:
A new article sheds light on the crucial intersection of critical psychology and the neurodiversity movement, advocating for the inclusion of autistic voices in mainstream psychology.
The entire "critical" movement is built on the assumption of "critical theory" developed by Max Horkheimer (an orthodox Jew by ancestry i.e. from fundamentalist background) that
you don't need to understand the subject of your criticism to be able to viably criticise it. Literally that's what it says.
Her analysis reveals the necessity of integrating critical psychology—a discipline aimed at challenging mainstream psychology’s norms and biases—with the neurodiversity movement, a political movement advocating for the rights and dignity of neurodivergent individuals.
Here's the important fact - "neurodivergence" is not only the socially anxious and awkward kid.
- a violent psychopath is"neurodivergent"
- a pedophile is "neurodivergent"
- a delusional serial rapist is "neurodivergent".
Autism is a disorder of elements regulating social interaction on a neurophysiological level including mechanisms for
empathy.
- every anti-social individual is by default on the autistic spectrum.
- every serial killer is by default on the autistic spectrum.
- every pedophile is by default on the autistic spectrum.
Autism makes them incapable of
correctly reacting to cues from their victims which allows them to engage in abusive behaviour without the natural sub-conscious empathetic reaction that non-autistic individuals have.
Autism may have genetic components but it is primarily environmental i.e. it requires stimulation from the immediate social context, especially parents and family and expecially the mother and here negative influence can happen
in utero! An abusive mother is emotionally unstable and since emotions are consequences of hormonal shifts the mother having a stress reaction is literally flooding the fetus with stress hormones during pregnancy. The child is born already
stressed the same way children of heroine addict mothers are born
addicted. And then it only gets worse: neglect, emotional starvation, aggression etc.
Autism is an adaptation to adverse environmental conditions. Therefore it carries the adverse conditions
within it. Some autistic people are just weirdos, other are unpleasant weirdos, and some are
dangerous weirdos. But it is precisely autism that makes them problematic.
This something that Big Pharma doesn't want you to hear because it prevents them from selling drugs to abused kids of abusive parents to medicate them so that they keep coming back for more. An abusive parent won't return to pay you if you tell them the truth - that they are the
environmental cause of the child's problems.
She posits that critical psychology and the neurodiversity movement are inherently linked, emphasizing the neurodiversity paradigm, which views neurodiversity as an inherent and valuable aspect of human diversity, subject to similar social dynamics and oppression as other forms of diversity.
litrally: Mental illness is not an illness but evidence of society being oppressive.
ergo:
Thomas critically addresses the concept of “normalization” in the context of neurodiversity, arguing that attempts to pathologize and modify behavior to fit mainstream norms are detrimental.
literally: Mentally ill people should not conform to societal norms, because it is bad for their mental illness.
ergo:
Faced with such oppressive and traumatic treatment methods, Autistic individuals are frequently compelled to “mask” or hide aspects of their true selves to conform to societal expectations, further perpetuating a cycle of trauma and oppression within the Autistic community.
literally: Conformity to societal norms is oppression, even if society finds the behaviour problematic.
ergo:
Additionally, Thomas points out the increasing prevalence of queer and non-binary gender identities within the Autistic community.
et voila!
Pay attention to the wording. It's not only
prevalent but
increasing. But there is no grooming and definitely the critical psychologists are not the groomers.Even though they cause
intense feelings of disappointment and mistrust in their patients.
And now you know why it's focused on vulnerable young people and why it brings identities and political activism instead of help.
It's to distract them from what is being done to them. This is why they advertise "inclusive safe spaces" where nobody can criticise anyone or anything.
You think the good guys are pushing it?
It's terrifying how blatant it has become, and it's more terrifying to know that it only exists because people with resources are protecting it for their own ends. Literally on Amazon you can't publish a book if the book links mental disorders and "identities" even if it's about statements from "critical psychologists" describing what they do. It's not a question of bad faith framing. It's a hard rejection of
any connection no matter how fairly presented and backed by evidence.
And note that it doesn't come with the emergence of the "gay" portion of "identities" but only when the "trans" and related portion. They didn't care about the gays. The only started caring after transgenderism got involved. That's because one comes with birth. The other doesn't.
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
